Here's the end of a wonderful first semester as a sophomore! Even when it got crazy I kept working hard and never gave up. In the end I pulled off an A in every class except Western Art 1 which I got a solid B. I loved all the classes I had and I have to say I'm proud of the work I made. Now it's going to be an even better second semester. I still have an 18 credit load of classes, but it's not going to be as challenging I hope because I only have three studios and three liberal arts classes.
My book final from Character design. I got a new tablet to help me out with the drawing and my goodness it makes a huge difference. I don't know if you could tell but drawing Borislav is my favorite. I don't know what it is about designing villains, but he was my favorite to draw.
These are my finals from animal drawing. The first two are the muscle overlays for the skeletons I drew. They're supposed to be two foxes and two tigers, but the challenge was turning it around in perspective without any reference. The one below them was my three drawings outside of class used as our final. I'm ok with two of them but ran out of time to make the third one (the dog falling) look good. However, that has a very funny story about my roommate's dog trying to take a leak on a hill and realizing shortly after what a huge mistake that was. :) I couldn't stop laughing when I heard that story.
And last but not least, here's my door scene final from Animation 1. As hopefully you can tell this is Borislav trying to break down the door, possibly to Nadja's ship. I had fun with this, I just wish I had a little more time to make that heavy kick even heavier, but for the time I had when I turned it in, I"m happy it turned out ok. I know that this semester will be even better in Animation 2.
So far this semester I've already had lots of exciting events. One of them was a gallery reception for the Italy trip I took in the summer of 2015. I displayed five pieces: a mask, two water colors, an inked drawing and my wings from Halloween. Within the three weeks of the show I've sold three of the four up for sale (my wings were not, sorry). And next week will be another great week because on Saturday after my Special effects class Andres Deja will be coming to LCAD to do a book signing. I've already got his book signed from last semester, but it will be great to hear him talk about his book in a little more detail.
The classes I'm taking this semester include: Animation 2, Special Effects (also traditional), Storytelling, Visual Development, Modern and Contemporary Art, and History of Animation. I'm looking forward to another great semester this year and I'll try and post as much as I can from each of the classes.
